File #: Int 1275-2023    Version: * Name: Vending on bridges.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 12/20/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to vending on bridges
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Amanda Farías
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would prohibit general vending and mobile food vending on a bridge approach. It would restrict all general vending and mobile food vending on bridges to elevated pedestrian walkways that have at least a sixteen-foot clear pedestrian path. It would prohibit vending within 20 feet of another pushcart operating on a bridge.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1275, 2. Int. No. 1275, 3. Committee Report 12/13/23, 4. Hearing Testimony 12/13/23, 5. Hearing Transcript 12/13/23, 6. December 20, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 7. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-20-23

Int. No. 1275

 

By Council Members Brewer and Farías

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to vending on bridges

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 17-315 of the administrative code of the city of the New York is amended by adding new subdivisions n, o and p to read as follows:

n. No food vendor shall vend on any elevated pedestrian walkway or bicycle lane on a bridge approach.

o. No pushcart shall be placed on any elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge unless said elevated pedestrian walkway has at least a sixteen foot clear pedestrian path to be measured from one side of the walkway to any obstruction in or on the walkway, or if there are no obstructions to the other side of the walkway, such measurement shall not include bicycle lanes.

p. No vending pushcart operating on any elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge shall be within 20 feet of another vending pushcart operating on such elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge.

§ 2. Section 20-465 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new subdivisions s, t and u to read as follows:

s. No general vendor shall vend on any elevated pedestrian walkway or bicycle lane on a bridge approach.

t. No pushcart shall be placed on any elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge unless said elevated pedestrian walkway has at least a sixteen foot clear pedestrian path to be measured from one side of the walkway to any obstruction in or on the walkway, or if there are no obstructions to the other side of the walkway, such measurement shall not include bicycle lanes.

u. No vending pushcart operating on any elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge shall be within 20 feet of another vending pushcart operating on such elevated pedestrian walkway on a bridge.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 30 days after it becomes law.

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11/15/23